Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...option on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway. This is a 600-mi., Y-shaped road joining Pennsylvania's soft coal and steel districts to Lakes Erie and Ontario. It lay as an important joint for him to connect his Delaware & Hudson, the Wabash (which he controlled) and the Lehigh Valley (which he thought he controlled). It was a pretty railroad layout and promised to compete with the New York Central, the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio established systems, and with the Van Sweringen brothers' pattern of the fourth system...
Then last spring Mr. Loree in a vicious, nerve-wracking stock-voting contest for control of the Lehigh Valley lost to Lehigh's President Edward Eugene Loomis. The fifth system thus could no longer be. Leonor Fresnel Loree, hard-bitten railroader that he is, was thwarted, vanquished.* At once he sold his Lehigh Valley and Wabash stocks to the Pennsyl-vania...
...Clevelanders state that they are not jovial, that they are aloof. They play (chiefly at golf) more for physical and mental exercise than for sport. As railroad financiers they are great tacticians, but not yet great strategists. They gained control of the Nickel Plate, the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Hocking Valley and the Erie; they have gained a share (with N. Y. C. and B. & O.) in the Lake Erie & Wheeling. They have had the strategic plan of making those railroads into the fourth eastern system. N. Y. C. has helped them; the B. & O. has removed obstacles; the Pennsylvania...
...mansion of their vast farm overhangs the wooded Chagrin River Valley, 15 miles east of Cleveland...
...Switzerland, last week, there was a sudden muffled roar in the Arbedo Valley. The tip of Monte Arbino, 9,000 feet above the level of the sea, was seen to quiver. One rock, then another, bounced and skidded down the mountain's side. Finally the whole peak slid clumsily into the surrounding valley. A huge cloud of dust spouted upward, for several days hung heavily over the scene of the avalanche...